Hi I am interested in having the information about the courses for which admission are sought through the C-DAC C-CAT entrance examination as well as the schedule?

Admissions to all PG Diploma courses of C-DAC are done through C-DAC's Computerized Common Admission Test (C-CAT). Consistently, C-CAT is generally directed in June (for August confirmations) and December (for February affirmations). Hopefuls who clear the June 2016 C-CAT might be considered for admission to C-DAC's PG Diploma courses of August 2016 clump on the premise of their C-CAT positions and focus/course inclinations.

Schedule for the C-DAC Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 2016 is given below.
Event & Dates

Beginning of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT 08 May 2016

Closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of

Examination Fee for C-CAT 09 June 2016

Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards 16 June to 23 June 2016

C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 19 June 2016 / 26 June 2016

Announcement of C-CAT Ranks 07 July 2016
Online Selection of Courses and Centres (1st Counselling) 07 July – 12 July 2016

Declaration of 1st Round of Seat Allocation 14 July 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for
candidates allocated seats through the 1st round 21 July 2016

Declaration of 2nd Round of Seat Allocation 26 July 2016

Online Selection of Courses and Centres (2nd Counselling) 26 July – 01 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates
allocated seats through the second round 01 Aug 2016

Declaration of Third Round of Seat Allocation
(based on 2nd Counselling) 05 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates
allocated seats through the 3rd round 10 Aug 2016

Last Date of Payment of Balance Course Fee &

Registration of Students at Training Centres 16 Aug 2016

Commencement of PG Diploma Courses 17 Aug 2016

List of PG Diploma courses and the corresponding test paper(s) in C-CAT.
Course Category
Course Name
Test Papers

I
PG Diploma in Geoinformatics (PG-DGi) Section A

II
PG Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC)
Section A + Section B
PG Diploma in Mobile Computing (PG-DMC)
PG Diploma in System Software Development (PG-DSSD)
PG Diploma in Internet of Things (PG-DIoT)
PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems & Security (PG-DITISS)
PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PG-DBDA)

III
PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD)
Section A + Section B + Section C
PG Diploma in VLSI Design (PG-DVLSI)
PG Diploma in Biomedical Instrumentation & Health Informatics (PG-DBIHI)

C-CAT Test Papers

C-CAT has three areas (Section A, Section B, Section C) of one hour term each. As appeared in Table, contingent upon the class of courses chose by the competitor, he/she will need to either show up for only one test paper (Section An) or two test papers (Section An and Section B) or all the three test papers (Section A, Section B and Section C). The medium of C-CAT is English.

Essential Note: A hopeful can seem just for the particular section(s) in C-CAT according to the class of the courses selected by him/her at the season of filling the online application structure.

Each area in C-CAT will have 50 objective-sort questions. Every inquiry will have four options as could reasonably be expected answers of which one and only will be right. There will be +3 (in addition to three) marks for each right reply, - 1 (less one) for every wrong reply, and 0 (zero) marks for every un-endeavored question. The most extreme denote an applicant can acquire in any one area of C-CAT is 150.

C-CAT Syllabus

Syllabus of the different sections of test papers in C-CAT.
Test Paper
Topics Duration

Section A
English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning 1 hour

Section B
Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communication & Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems 1 hour

Section C
Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors 1 hour